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Show In Every Line. The poet Bryant, while editor of the New York Post, insisted that young poets should be sympathetically noticed in the book columns of the paper. Once a subeditor handed him a thin volume of poems saying that they were worth less. Mr. Bryant looked through the book and then said, "You might say that it is prettily bound and clearly printed." The editor of whom this story is told also had a soft side tor young men who would write poetry. "Give me your candid judgment of these lines," 6aid the young man of literary lit-erary aspirations. "Do they convey the idea of poetry at all V "Yes, sir," replied the editor, looking look-ing them over, "they do. There is something some-thing in every line that conveys the Idea. Every line," continued the kind hearted man, letting him down as gently gen-tly as he could, "'begins with a capital letter." Youth's Companion, |